KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The following have been invited to give a Keynote presentation at the conference. 


Sonia Anand
McMaster University, Canada

Dr. Sonia Anand is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University, is the Director of the Chanchlani Research Centre focused on Health Equity Research, and is a Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute. Dr. Anand received a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster in 1992, Internal Medicine Training at McMaster and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. After additional clinical training in thrombosis and in vascular medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Anand works as a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University. Dr. Anand further received her Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster in 1996 and Ph.D. in Health Research Methodology at McMaster in 2002. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Her present research focuses upon the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, women, and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Anand has been awarded more than 46 million dollars in research funding in the last 10 years including two recent COVID-19 observational studies. Dr. Anand’s work is widely published amongst academic journals with over 415 scientific publications, and in 2019 she was inducted as a Fellow to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Takeshi Bamba
Kyushu University, Japan

Takeshi Bamba is a professor at the Division of Metabolomics/Mass Spectrometry Center, Medical Research Center for High Depth Omics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Japan. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in engineering from Osaka University. He spent five years doing a NEDO project postdoc at Hitachi Zosen Co. He held an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science and an associate professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University, and became the professor at Kyushu University in 2015. His research revolves around an analytical science approach to metabolomics. His laboratory focuses on the development of various metabolomics technologies such as sample preparation, instrument analysis and data mining, and their application researches in various fields. Recently, he is actively working on the development of new technologies for single-cell metabolomics and proteomics. He has published more than 200 articles in scientific journals/books.

Anne K. Bendt
Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), Singapore

Dr Anne K Bendt is Principal Investigator and Deputy Director at SLING, the Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, an internationally renowned R&D program in lipid research and technology development, anchored at the National University of Singapore. She focusses on the translation of mass spectrometry-based technologies into clinical applications, primarily for lipids and small molecules.

Anne is further passionate about training and education, and has made substantial contributions to SLING’s various workshops and ‘ic lipid’ training courses. Internationally, Anne is co-instructor of ‘Lipidomics 101’, a short course for clinical lipidomics. 

With clinical translation close to her heart, Anne serves on the ‘Metabolomics’ working group within the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). She further serves on the steering committee of ‘Clinical Lipidomics’ within the International Lipidomics Society (ILS) and as Associate Editor for ‘Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab’ (JMSACL). Early2019 Anne co-founded the global initiative ‘Females in Mass Spectrometry’ (FeMS), serving as Chair on the Board.

Ian Castro-Gamboa
IQ-UNESP, Brazil

Dr. Castro-Gamboa is a professor and researcher at the Chemistry Institute of São Paulo State University (IQ-UNESP), Brazil. In 2000 he obtained his Ph.D. in natural products chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Since 2021, he is a founding member of LAMPS (Latin American Metabolic Profiling Society) an organization that endeavors to strengthen the Latin American metabolomic scientific community.  His research interests are discovering bioactive metabolites from Brazilian plants and microorganisms, understanding synergism phenomena in natural complex mixtures, and developing analytical methods, through metabolomics, using NMR and MS towards the conservation and rational use of the Brazilian biodiversity.

Hennicke Kamp
BASF Metabolome Solutions GmbH, Germany

Prof. Dr. Hennicke Kamp studied Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and received his Ph.D. in 2004 for the thesis “Investigations on the mechanism of the genotoxic/carcinogenic action of the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A“ (Supervisor: Prof. Gerhard Eisenbrand). 2004, he started his career at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Department of Experimental Toxicology and Ecology. During this time, he headed the laboratories for alternative methods and mechanistic toxicology. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a toxicological consultant for the BASF metabolome solutions. From 2010 to 2021 he was group leader with varying responsibilities. Since June 2021, Hennicke Kamp is managing director of BASF Metabolome Solutions GmbH in Berlin, Germany.

Hennicke Kamp was responsible as project leader for the development of alternative methods as well as metabolomics in toxicology and participated in numerous publicly funded projects and initiatives, such as the MERIT project. He was WP-leader and member of the steering team and executive office of the H2020 project EU-ToxRisk, and scientific advisor to the IMI project eTRANSAFE. Currently, he is WP-co-leader, member of the steering team and executive office of the H2020 project RISKHUNT3R. He is involved in initiatives promoting metabolomics for regulatory use, such as MERIT, MATCHING, OECD CG-ARM and the ecetoc task force for smart studies.

From 2005 to 2009, Hennicke has been Founding Member, Member of the Steering Committee and Head of the Working Group of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA). He is Member of DGPT and SOT. He holds a lectureship on “Toxikologie und Gefahrstoffrecht (toxicology and hazardous material regulation)” at University Bielefeld since 2007, which was awarded with an honorary professorship in 2018. In 2012, he received the BASF Innovation Award.

Rachel Kelly
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

*Recipient of 2022 Metabolomics Society President's Award

Rachel Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Associate Epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School. She completed her PhD at Imperial College London studying the molecular epidemiology of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, before moving to Boston to undertake her postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health where she expanded this work to explore the role of the dysregulation of metabolism in carcinogenesis. Rachel has been at the CDNM for six years and focuses on metabolomic epidemiology and the integration of metabolomics with other omic data types in the study of complex chronic diseases. She is particularly interested in the derivation of metabo-endotypes and their role in precision medicine initiatives. Rachel's primary phenotypes of interest are in early life development including neurodevelopment and respiratory health. She is currently leading one of the largest meta-analyses of metabolomic epidemiology data to date via the Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS) initiative, of which she is an executive committee member. Rachel is also a founding member of the metabolomics society Metabolomic Epidemiology Task Group.

María Eugenia Monge
Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION) – CONICET, Argentina

*Recipient of 2022 Metabolomics Society Medal

María Eugenia Monge is an Independent Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and works at the Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION). In 2006, she obtained her Ph.D. in analytical and physical chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Between 2007 and 2014, she held postdoctoral positions in Italy, France, and the USA. In 2014, she was recruited by CONICET to set up a new laboratory in a new research center in Argentina, where she leads the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group and the Mass Spectrometry facility (https://cibion.conicet.gov.ar/mass-spectrometry/?lan=en). Her research group develops MS-based metabolomics and lipidomics analytical methods with applications in health and the environment. As well, her group has contributed with pipelines for preprocessing LC-MS data for quality control procedures in untargeted workflows. She is co-author of >45 peer-reviewed publications (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6517-5301) . Since 2014, she has coordinated hands-on metabolomics courses at CIBION for South American students, and has participated in strengthening the Latin American community through teaching in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina. Since 2021, she is a founding member of LAMPS (www.lamps-network.org), and has contributed to engage LAMPS as an international affiliate of the Metabolomics Society. Since 2019, she has been a member of the metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium (mQACC), and she has been a member of the Metabolomics Society, where she serves on the Membership Committee. In 2022, she was elected to the Metabolomics Society Board of Directors. She is the vice-president of the Argentinean Mass Spectrometry Society. She has served as guest editor for the journal Metabolites, and is an editorial board member of GigaByte. In 2022, she was awarded the Metabolomics Society Medal.

Joelle Sasse Schläpfer
Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Joelle Sasse Schläpfer is an assistant Professor for Plant-Soil Interactions at the University of Zurich, Institute for Plant and Microbial Biology, since 2019. She combines her expertise in molecular plant biology, plant transporters and immunity, and analytical chemistry to study how plants shape their interactions with microbes. Specifically, she is interested in elucidating root exudation dynamics to discover how plant-beneficial interactions can be promoted in a targeted manner in agriculture.

Scott Smid
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Scott is a pharmacologist specializing in drug discovery and development research both in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. He maintains a strong research interest in experimental therapeutics applied towards novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases focusing on the biological actions of endocannabinoids, phytocannabinoids and other novel cannabis phytochemicals and acts as a scientific advisor and invited speaker to stakeholders in industry, government and public advocacy on the science behind medicinal cannabis.

Justin J.J. van der Hooft
Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Justin J.J. van der Hooft is an Assistant Professor in Computational Metabolomics in the Bioinformatics Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and an author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles in the metabolomics field. He obtained his MSc (2007) in Molecular Sciences (Wageningen University, NL) and his PhD (2012) at the Biochemistry and Bioscience groups in Wageningen (Wageningen University & Research, NL). Justin is very fascinated by the ingenuity of nature in creating marvelous chemical structures and their diverse roles in ecosystems that include inter-kingdom communication and this a main driver of his research. After a postdoctoral period in Glasgow, UK, studying both analytical and computational aspects of metabolite structure annotation, he returned to Wageningen in 2017 to work on linking metabolome and genome mining workflows. Since he started his own group in 2020, his team has continued to develop computational metabolomics methodologies to decompose the mass spectral data of complex metabolite mixtures into structure and substructure information. By linking genome and metabolome mining, his team studies plant, food, and microbiome-associated metabolites to find novel bioactive metabolites and infer their source and function. Since 2022, he is also affiliated with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a visiting professor. Interested? Find out more and meet the team here: https://vdhooftcompmet.github.io


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